Re: French (AZERTY) + greek polytonic keyboard

On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 09:43:45PM +0100, Vincent wrote:

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> Actually, I noticed that many people were interested in polytonic
> keyboards.Β Unfortunately, the one distributed with X, part of the
> symbols/el, works only with a greek layout... my attempt would be fitted
> to an AZERTY keyboard. There is still much work to do for other
> languages, like English, Italian, German...

  As Danilo already explained, what you want is relatively easy to
accomplish, using "-layout fr,el -variant ,polytonic" or something.
It's for situations like this that the new, single-group-only layouts
were introduced in the first place (symbols/pc/*).

  Unless of course you would like to have the Greek letters as well in
an AZERTY ordering, i.e. have Άλφα as the topmost, leftmost key. This
would need a few additions inside pc/el, but if there's an interest
for this, it can be done.

  Unless of course you would also like to have the non-letter symbols
be the same as the French keyboard. This, too, is perfectly doable,
although it requires slightly more work [0]. But until we have a clear
picture of what it is exactly that non-Greek users (the French, in
this case) of the polytonic keyboard really want, there's no point.


[0] No, it doesn't require cramming definitions for every other layout
in pc/el, if anyone's worried about that. I would just have to extend
the concept of el(bare) to a new el(polytonic_bare), and that's about
it.

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